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 Empchild wrote:

silent25 wrote:

 Empchild wrote:
Not mine a friends and the avatar was Aaron Lovejoys. I had 4 entries this year 3 made first cut etc. the friend took silver on the Ork for his 4th demon I think.

Did Aaron manage to take the Slayer Sword this time? I know he was putting his efforts into the mounted daemonette. Saw it in person and looked awesome.

No

Boo! Who managed to snag it? New on the Golden Demons is very spares this year.

No comment honestly as this years demon was different to day te least.

They're getting sloppy.

Good news there are lots of photos, the first ones here are mine and can be found with the rest at http://apocalypse40k.blogspot.com/

Loken gets first dibs, then we can start adding here along with the interviews I did with the designers. I got more pics incoming but 10 hour drive killed me.

 Oaka wrote:


At first, I thought this guy had a really gnarly mask on...

Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

T

There would potentially be more women at GW events if people stopped making such a big deal about it...

 insaniak wrote:
There would potentially be more women at GW events if people stopped making such a big deal about it...

Amen.

Female players can be more fun, I find they tend too use their imagination more

I ain't going anywhere near that comment....


Is there any more pictures of the dragon thing wrapped around the castle? I'd like to the front of it.

woah, I don't mean sexually...

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw that tank.

Bahahaha. Nice.


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May the force be with you young pricerocketers,

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
They're getting sloppy.

I will admit I tried. It was my first attempt at the golden demon competition. This was also my first games day. My entry was the night lords hellbrute with the chainlink power scourge. You cannot win if you do not try. Over the corse of the next year, I am going to try and learn more about nonmetallics and object source lighting.

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

I'm curious for details? How did they manage to try to give a trophy to someone outside the category? And what do you mean by rules violations?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:

 Lord_Mortis wrote:

He was a nice fellow though, and I did get some good painting tips. I just thought the whole "autograph" thing was a bit comical.

I knew someone who got their codex signed by loads of people at a gamesday so they probably do get asked. It's probably more exciting for people who are meeting 'celebs' for the first time.

It's probably just as exciting (if not, more!) for people like Chris Peach. Their 15 minutes, or day in the sun.

Spaz431 wrote:

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
They're getting sloppy.

I will admit I tried. It was my first attempt at the golden demon competition. This was also my first games day. My entry was the night lords hellbrute with the chainlink power scourge. You cannot win if you do not try. Over the corse of the next year, I am going to try and learn more about nonmetallics and object source lighting.

your painting is great, I meant the event itself

Quite a cool variant of the storm eagle!

I personally really like that sicaran battle tank hope that has 40k rules too!

Thanks for all the pic's people!

 ThouShallNotHeal wrote:
woah, I don't mean sexually...

Relax dude. I was only taking the piss.

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

Actually 4.

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

Could you describe what rules weren't followed, and how the woman came to 'win' a catagory she hadn't entered?

Thanks for the pics of the gold demon entries, Emp!

Re: judging, what can you do really? It's subjective... probably best just to move on.

 RiTides wrote:
Thanks for the pics of the gold demon entries, Emp!

Re: judging, what can you do really? It's subjective... probably best just to move on.

Indeed and thus I am personally. People will see for themselves in time.

Yeah, curious to see winners myself and what entries won that broke rules/what rules.


I didn't even bother trying to enter my orks because I use 3rd party heads for example, so I would be a bit bugged if they gave medal to someone who did that as well, while the rules dissuaded people like myself from even entering on account of those same rules.

Sounds like it was handled pretty unprofessionally

 Kroothawk wrote:

timd wrote:
Besides the cool mask, the photographer managed to three women in the same photo at a GW event - impressive!

Actually 4.

I knew that >_>

 BrookM wrote:

Bloodhorror wrote:
What pray tell is the Warhammer picture in the background?

Old art:

Next WHFB boxed set to feature Empire vs Beastmen. You heard it here first folks!

Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

Well here's my unsorted uncommented Pics
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Foda_Bett/library/Travels/2013%20Memphis%20Games%20Day

Slipstream wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong. After reading posts from Dakkas that attended this 'event', I get the feeling that it was what you Americans would describe as a giant crapfest, is this correct? I thought these gamesdays were meant as a way to generate new interest, loads of big reveals of new products, lots of things to do, you know, worthwhile. Instead from what I read this event was just going through the motions, offering very little but expecting you to spend megabucks then kindly leave?
It seems like you were expected to pay a lot for an entry ticket then realise you were infact paying to get into what seemed to be a glorified retail outlet. Surely they have to do better than this, otherwise why bother?

No, they really, really don't. If the gaming industry has taught me one thing, it's that gamers will pay good hard cash for absolutely nothing, if they're committed to the company enough.

GW can charge whatever they want for people to come to their retail outlet, because they can convince Bill (or Billy's mom, if he's young enough) that it's exciting.

PP's charged $10 for 3 low res image files and the fans still lick their boots. They could probably have included that as a KS option, too, come to think of it.

...I was going to try for rounding it out with a 3rd example, but those are the only companies that seem to have the clout to really gouge their customers like that.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:

 Empchild wrote:
I won't say much about demon other then this was the most unprofessional job I have ever seen. Models broken and poorly treated by the judges no less. The judges pulled out some and handed them to random people so they could get pics. How do I know tet were random because I know who's mini it was. Even worse announcing a winner who wasn't even in the category is horrible. Thank god she had some integrity as others won't. It was just an awful demon and games day and to see winners and top 5s who violate GWs own rules is a disgrace to the comp. truthfully those three judges made it an utter joke.

I'm curious for details? How did they manage to try to give a trophy to someone outside the category? And what do you mean by rules violations?

Really interested to see what crapfest went down here. One horrible thing with judges handing figures to random attendees, those attendees might not be random. Talking with friends who are professional figure painters, the boom to your sales/prices that comes with winning the Slayer Sword means there is fierce competition. I could see a friend of one of the top entrants "accidentally" dropping a leading competitors fig.

It sounds like the group of judges they got were pure amateur hour who never judged this competition before and had no clue what to do.

Does anyone have a pic of the winners/sword winner?